4Fireking) Is that so?
The Keeper of Worlds) Flamedramon vs GeoGreymon, Raidramon vs Gaogamon, Shurimon vs Sunflowmon, Peacockmon (Falcomon/Miracle) vs Antylamon and Gotsumon vs Gumdramon (Strength & Speed Cards) all sound like fair fights, don't they?
Well, no. Near as I can tell, Armor/Human Hybrid levels are in-between Champion/Ultimate, and as for Miracle/Fate/Beast Hybrid, in-between Ultimate/Mega. Fusion Hybrids? Between Mega / Super Ultimate/Ultra/Chou Kyukyokutai/Burst Mode/Level VII. Transcendent forms? Above that...
And that's assuming that it's one-on-one. Which it won't be.
Atop a bank near where Kristy, Marcus, Agumon, Sarah, and for the duration of their stay, Suzie and Lopmon, lived, sat Gumdramon, feeling, for the lack of better terms, just a teensy bit annoyed and wary.
His first two days in this world had been hectic to say the least, with Falcomon showing up and getting soundly beaten by Marcus and Turuiemon, followed by Merukimon showing up, claiming him to be special.
Gumdramon smirked. As if Merukimon had ever been necessary to point that out...
After that, the Digimon activity in the city had calmed greatly, with literally none over the three days since, giving Suzie and Lopmon more than enough time to practice using those cards at Kristy's urging, after school.
He sighed inwardly at the memory at that, 'practice', as it had amounted to Turuiemon avoiding all his attacks like it was nothing, while trying her hardest not to revert him to a Digi-Egg. His tail still felt sore after yesterday.
He wasn't even sure why he felt a need to come up here. Something about this height, the peace and quiet up here, and watching the people of the city skitter about, just fascinated him.
Besides, it wasn't as though he had anything better to do, as Kristy was in school for another hour, and as DATS had gone public, there was no real danger in people spotting him.
However, the enjoyability of the experience was lessened somewhat by the human in the white-grey shirt and black pants, telling him that he had to leave, and asking whether he ought to be in school.
"Yeah, whatever," He grumbled at the man, shouting down to the people on the street that they should make some room. The people looked around quizzically, wondering who had yelled that at them, and why whoever it was wanted them to clear out from in front of the bank, though some of them acceded, as they saw no harm in doing so. Gumdramon watched with vested interest, as about enough of them had given enough space for a crash-landing.
The security guard immediately became alarmed, hoping strongly that the child in the costume wasn't planning to jump off the edge. "NO WAIT! DON'T DO THIS!" He hollered at Gumdramon, as the dinosaur prepared to step off.
In truth, the mini-dragon didn't really care what the human had to say; he wasn't Kristy, or Sarah, or Marcus, and it wasn't as though he was leaping off the roof for no reason. The people down on the street screamed in panic as the purple dragon took a small leap forward, and fell straight down.
The fall happened at a remarkable speed, Gumdramon off-handedly noted. Less than three seconds, if he counted correctly, before he impacted into the side-walk, the concrete visibly cracked where he had landed, a ring-like cloud of dust appearing around him.
Around him, people stared incredulously at him, speechless with shock over what he had just done. Gumdramon smirked, as disregarding some discomfort, he was barely hurt by it.
"W-wh-what are you!?" One of the people present, a dark-haired, green-eyed woman, exclaimed frantically at the sight of a about two meters tall draconic thing leaping off a building, and surviving unscathed.
"Just testing out the new body," Gumdramon replied off-handedly, with a faint growl to his level tone. The people looked incredulously at him, wondering what the creature meant by, 'new body', since that sort of technology was outside what their society was capable of. "And gotta say, it feels great!"
"You were one of those creatures with the Damons that fought that dinosaur up on Marcus' turf a few days ago!" Another person, a bespectacled teen, realized. People stared blankly at him, wondering what in the world he was referring to. 'Damon' was that local delinquent, but how the hell had he gotten involved with dragons and dinosaurs duking it out in ?
"Hold on..." One of the present men thought. He had said, 'Damons', plural. Did that imply that the father or mother of the family, or god forbid, another of their children, was involved in something so dangerous? It seemed downright irresponsible to him to allow children to fight, but he surmised that whatever that agency was called, they
"You got that right," The miniature dragon chuckled. Then, without warning, his short wings started to flap as he took off into the sky.
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Elsewhere, about half an hour later, Sarah was busy with her laundry, humming to herself. Per her request, Suzie was off running some errands, leaving Lopmon who was sleeping on the couch, mumbling something that she hadn't quite been able to make out, though it sounded like, 'moment', or something in that direction.
Marcus and Kristy were both in school, and Agumon in the Digivice, so it looked to be a quiet morning in the household. However, Gumdramon's whereabouts worried her slightly, as he had left an hour ago, saying that he was going to have a looksee of his surroundings. He had responded to her concerns on the matter by pointing out that since DATS was now functionally public, there was no danger in him being spotted, through he had promised to stay out of sight regardless.
In hindsight, trusting him so easily had been a mistake somewhat, she realized as she heard the tell-tale sound of a police car speeding by her house. Suddenly, she heard the soft sounds of flapping wings above her, and Gumdramon landed a distance away, his back turned to her.
The mini-dragon turned around, and gave her a wide grin. "Well, doesn't this seem familiar?"
"Yes, it certainly does," Sarah chuckled, wondering what it was, about this back-yard and this Digimon. Slowly, her smile faded, and she gave Gumdramon a worried look. "Is there something going on, Gumdramon?"
"Nope," The dragon smirked back, not assuaging her in the slightest. "Although, I think that I need to lie low for a while; I might've caused a bit of trouble, you see."
Sarah sighed. Though she knew that Kristy cared deeply about the dragon, she couldn't allow the hooligan Digimon to live with them. "And what sort of mayhem did you cause?" She sternly asked the Digimon.
"Nothing serious," He chuckled nervously. "Just a mild bit of panic."
"What a relief," Sarah shook her head. At least, she considered it be relieving that he'd caused no worse than mild panic.
Chapter notes
1) Gumdramon jumping off a roof may seem weird, or downright suicidal, but really he's just being himself. Himself being a raving psycho.
2) Yes, Gumdramon knows a lot of things that he ought not to, like what seconds are, but then again, Biyomon shouldn't have spoken fluent english/japanese when he reached his Rookie-level, so knowledge-upload can be proven to occur in some cases.
